Latino groups rebuke state’s coronavirus vaccine drive, state stands chastened
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Latino advocacy groups fired a frank and emotional broadside at state health officials Thursday, claiming Oregon has all but ignored their pleas to ensure more Latinos get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
While short on quantifiable requests for funds, vaccine doses or clinics, the speakers at a news conference organized by the Latino Network displayed a sense of urgency, citing disheartening statistics and warning of the impending doom riding in on the coronavirus pandemic’s fourth wave.
They pointed blame
in one principal direction: at the state and its alleged failure to work with and sufficiently fund the groups most in touch with the Latino community.
Latino groups in Oregon call for greater vaccination efforts from state leaders Carmen Montes, KATU Staff
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In Portland, the Latino Network and other organizations are demanding that more be done to speed up the vaccination process among the Latino population, saying that only 6% have been inoculated so far.
They are asking for local, state, and federal health systems to acknowledge what they call failures in the vaccination process among the Latino population in Oregon, and calling for changes.
Among the demands, they d like to see a Spanish language registration hotline, vaccination events in culturally specific locations for minorities, and funds to hire staff for Latino community vaccination events.
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